The history of grammar teaching

Lily’s Grammar of Latin in English (1540 ff)

Taught children to analyse the English sentence before translating it into Latin, and applied as much to English as to Latin.

Commissioned by Henry VIII and authorized as the only grammar to be used in English schools for over 300 years, till replaced in the late 19th century by Kennedy’s Latin Grammar. This is the grammar that taught grammatical analysis to Shakespeare and many others.